So as you may know I run WineTest in a variety of Windows configurations daily (28). The results can be seen on test.winehq.org but the problem is investigating the test failures because most of these configurations cannot be found on the Wine TestBot. I have three options to work around this:
* As I mentionned before (1), if you're interested in a specific configuration I may be able to temporarily switch a WineTestBot VM to that configuration.
* Another option is to send me an executable to run in the VM and I'll send back the results.
* And the new option is that I can now give you VNC access to the VM.
Access is open to any Wine developer (i.e. you got a patch accepted in Wine). To get access to the VM contact me on IRC or send me an email and give me the tag of the VM configuration you're interested in (e.g. fg-winxp-lusr). Then I'll start up the VM in the right configuration and send you the address to use to connect to the VM.
Of course if I'm asleep or out you may have to wait a bit to get access. Also my uplink is not very fast so expect slow refreshes and some lag. But in the short test I've done it seems to be usable (at least to someone who's used to transatlantic VNC links with an elastic mouse pointer).
And for reference here is a list of the available VM configurations. We may not care about some of them, for instance those running the earlier service pack revisions. Let me know if that's the case.
Windows 2000 ------------
The French Windows 2000 Professional SP4 installed from an official Microsoft CD. Unless otherwise noted the tests are run in an administrator account.
fg-win2000-4sp IE 5.00 SP2 fg-win2000-ie55 = 4sp + IE 5.5 SP2, MSXML3 fg-win2000-ie6 = ie55 + IE 6.0 SP1 fg-win2000-up1 = ie6 + all updates up to 2011/03/21 fg-win2000-uplast = up1 + DirectX 9.0c, WMP 9, .Net 1.1 & 2.0 fg-win2000-rusr = uplast but in a 'Restricted User' account fg-win2000-susr = uplast but in a 'Power User' account
Windows XP ----------
I created this VM from the Compaq Windows XP partition of my (former) computer. So this started with a number of extra non-Microsoft applications (blasts from the past: Netscape 7, RealOne Player, etc.). On the one hand this is more representative of what Windows users normally have and on the other the configuration is not as 'straight out of the box' as the other VMs. That may not matter though.
fg-winxp-1sp XP SP 1, IE 6.0 SP1, DirectX 8.1 fg-winxp-2sp = 1sp + XP SP2, IE 6.0, DirectX 9.0c, .Net 1.0 SP3 fg-winxp-2spie7 = 2sp + IE 7.0, WMP 10, .Net 1.1 fg-winxp-3sp = 2spie7 + XP SP3, WMP 11, .Net 2.0 SP2 & 3.0 SP2 & 3.5 SP1 fg-winxp-3spie8 = 3sp + IE 8 fg-winxp-last = 3spie8 + all updates up to 2011/09/08 fg-winxp-lusr = last but in a 'Limited User' account
Windows 7 ---------
Installed from an official English Windows 7 Ultimate CD. Unless otherwise noted the tests are run in an administrator account with Elevated Privileges.
fg-win7u64-0sp Base install + French language pack (but still configured for English) fg-win7u64-1sp = 0sp + SP1 fg-win7u64-1spie9(64) = 1sp + IE 9.0, all language packs fg-win7u64-1spie9adm = 1spie9 but no 'Elevated Privileges' fg-win7u64-1spie9usr = 1spie9 but in a 'Standard user' account fg-win7u64-1spie9-ar = 1spie9 but in an Arabic locale fg-win7u64-1spie9-de = 1spie9 but in a German locale fg-win7u64-1spie9-es = 1spie9 but in a Spanish locale fg-win7u64-1spie9-fr = 1spie9 but in a French locale fg-win7u64-1spie9-he = 1spie9 but in a Hebrew locale fg-win7u64-1spie9-ja = 1spie9 but in a Japanese locale fg-win7u64-1spie9-ko = 1spie9 but in a Korean locale fg-win7u64-1spie9-mx = 1spie9 but in a mixed locale
(1) https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2015-September/109252.html
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Francois Gouget